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Oregon Again, the Pretty Woman Behind Every Waterfall, Photographic Verisimilitude, and Animated Photographs

One of the small houses of Neskowin, the delightful tiny village along the central coast. © Jim Owens

This writing finds me back in northern Utah at what appears to be the end of that difficult part of Summer when monsoonal rains kick down soaring temperatures. This breaking point is invariably well received, at least by me. In Southern Nevada things are still boiling with some of the hottest weather they have had […]

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old-school illustration, new-school ai, and new photography from nevada and utah

Another lovely sight at the Utah Tulip Festival in Lehi. © Jim Owens

There is no bar in downtown Las Vegas with the moniker “After the Apocalypse”, yet. There should be. A speakeasy. Below ground. With a thick roof and solid metal doors. The design of the card below just happened. Playing around with AI in illustrator. You turn on your computer in the morning and there is […]

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las vegas wtf, python and aws, adobe ai, and the lyon fête des lumières

A twenty nine dollar flight. An hour late in the planned time of departure which was good because the highway from Park City had been closed and I was also an hour late in arriving at the airport. I had been moved to the last row of seats and importantly from a middle seat to […]

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110° f in the shade, coyotes, and more on ai and social media

A quick down and back put me in Southern Nevada for ten days. On the day I arrived it was topping out somewhere in the 90’s. On the day we left it was 106, had just been 112, and was going to be bouncing around in that difficult 106 to 112 range for the foreseeable […]

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Spring, Paradise, AI, Copilot and Firefly

Adobe Firefly generated images composited using conventional techniques in Adobe Photoshop.

Ahhhh. Spring has sprung here in Southern Nevada. Ain’t life grand. The backyard critters are doing their Disney-cartoon-themed thing. Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, antelope ground squirrels, small lizards and gambel’s quail are darting in and out and hurriedly criss-crossing the yard. The chipmunk-like squirrels are particularly active munching on petunias, then climbing the ephedra and stripping […]